Terence Davies

Writer-director Terence Davies combined with the scintillating acting of Cynthia Nixon – as she delivers a career-best performance as Dickinson – create an intimate, contemplative film overflowing with incessant wordplay, wit and wry observation. A Quiet Passion allows us a glimpse into the life of this ...

There are familiar features and figures: landmark films and Carry On movies, works from Terence Davies, Isaac Julien and Derek Jarman, fleeting moments from classic films such as Victim and The L-Shaped Room, interviews from 1960s TV specials and ads for bri-nylon socks. None of the footage is ...

Russo is an experienced film producer, whose feature documentary credits include Terence Davies' Of Time and the City (2008), Gillian Wearing's Self Made (2011), Andrew Kotting's Swandown (2012) and Ken Loach's The Spirit of '45 (2013). She was also a producer on the artist film Abandoned Goods ...

We want people to want us not just for one project and not for just some kind of potentially profit-making product. “We want our voices and development invested in and that's what the BFI was doing with people like Derek, Sally Potter, Ron Peck, Peter Greenaway and Terence Davies,” she continued. “There ...

Although his first film is rough in its execution, Terence Davies had already sketched most of the now familiar elements of his cinematic style in the opening shots of the 40-minute, BFI-funded Children (1976): the blending of social realism with impressionism; drab, working-class locations lent a sense of ...